Friday Photo: Dusting off Some Old Friends
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Lorena’s Chex Mix
(Originally posted… oh, lawd… some time in early 2004) Lorena’s Chex Mix Everybody always asks me how I make my Chex Mix. Before I tell you that, you have to sit through a history lesson. My grandmother always made this Chex Mix at the holidays. Quite popular, it was, and …
Linkdump
One thing I love to do is to make up stories about people I don’t know; either by seeing a random photo on Flickr or Ravelry, or walking by houses, or just generally people-watching. And that’s why one of my new favorite sites is My Parents Were Awesome – a …
Poll of the Week
When last we left our intrepid hero
Blah blah blah want to be there blah blah blah they’re so far away blah blah blah I hate thinking about how far away they are. You know… I moved away to Virginia once, for a year. And I came back partly because oh, hello, NOT A BIG CITY GIRL …
QOTW – 2009/11/02
And the Question of the Week is… if you had siblings, did you get along with them?
Linkdump
Do you often waffle on buying the sandwich, or thinking it might be cheaper to buy all the ingredients and make it yourself? Calculate out how much that individual sandwich costs. — How many of these playgrounds from the 70’s do you recognize? — Here’s one for Sharon – tombstones …
Scrapowig
And…. just in time for Halloween…. Yarn: The leftover yarn from my Dr. Who scarf, which became a pullover (Dr. Whubey). Pattern: Hallowig (Ravelry; Knitty.com) Notes: Every year I say I want to knit one of these, and every year I never get around to it. So even though I …
Tiltshift Saturday
Friday Photo
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Cupcake Ripple
Yarn: Yarn Pirate BFL in “Cupcake” Pattern: Broadripple (Ravelry; Knitty.com) Notes: Started these as a KAL in the Hanks group on Ravelry a number of months ago… but kept putting them aside for other, more pressing things. Finally buckled down and made myself finish them last week!
You think
(Originally posted on April 4, 2007) You think You think to yourself, this sucks. And it does. You think to yourself, this isn’t fair. And it isn’t. You think to yourself that this man next to you is getting, as Neil wrote, what everyone gets. A lifetime. How much longer …
Coronet in Blue
Yarn: Malabrigo worsted Pattern: Coronet (Ravelry; Knitty.com) Notes: Knitted to teach a class at the shop.
Poll of the Week
Wicked Yeller
How did I not blog this a couple weeks ago? Sigh. Yarn: Malabrigo worsted weight, and some of my handspun Pattern: Wicked (Ravel it!) Notes: Whipped this out as a shop sample, to show people what we’d be knitting in a class.
QOTW – 2009/10/26
And the Question of the Week is… Have you ever taken a sick day when you weren’t really sick? I think the answer to this should be “duh!” Or “do hangovers count as sick?”
2005 Photo-of-the-Day recap
I took out all the utter crap ones, and here’s what’s left. Lots of flowers, and pets. Also some coffee. And flowers. [pictobrowser type=”flickr” userID=”haldechick” albumID=”72157622651358226″]
Uncle Joe Update
The only reason I haven’t been writing daily updates is because every day it sounds better and better, and that just makes me want to be there more! Sunday – Joe sat up an hour today. We took him around to see the little aviary, full of finches and a …
Tiltshift Saturday
Friday Photo
Another toss-up this week; can I choose all seven? I really like the one that I took of myself holding a photo of Aunt Gay and Uncle Joe; but overall I think this week has to go to the truly creepy sky that we all woke up to last week. …
Poll of the week
I think I’m destined to be a day behind all this week. Let’s just accept that, and move on…? Don’t forget– you can have multiple choices, and fill in something under “other” if your favorite vampire isn’t in here!
QOTW – 2009/10/20
Totally forgot yesterday was Monday. By the time I remembered it was Monday (not Friday), I was at work and way too busy. So… uh… pretend it’s Monday…? The Question of the Week is… what additional commandment would you add to the ten? My answer is after the cut…
The one where I do what my mother would do
Yesterday on my drive to work, about five houses down from me, I thought I saw a burned-out firefighters coat in the yard of a house. “That can’t be what I saw,” I thought (glancing at the house as I drove past), “that house is fine except for being a …
The rest of the Cincinnati Zoo photos
Remember how I said I didn’t want to upload all these photos while ganking Internet from the neighbor with the unlocked wireless…? I finally got around to uploading them at home… [pictobrowser type=”flickr” userID=”haldechick” albumID=”72157622602848842″]